Shooting World Cup: Saurabh Chaudhary bags first senior gold with world record

Saurabh Chaudhary bagged India’s second gold medal at the ongoing ISSF World Cup at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi on Sunday. Saurabh, who has a Youth Olympics gold medal to his name, bagged the top spot in the 10m air pistol event of the World Cup with a world record score of 245.0. He defeated Serbia’s Damir Mikec.

In what was Saurabh’s first senior World Cup finals, he booked himself a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as his grabbed the quota place from this event for the mega event next year.

Such was Saurabh’s dominance that he had assured himself of the gold even before the final shot and was aiming for a world record in the final shot.

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